The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Or we could build a satellite to send to 2024 YR4, he says, similar to ESA’s Ramses satellite – due to travel to observe the asteroid Apophis, which is set to pass close to Earth in 2029. A final ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Science. Earthquake in the field of quantum physics after the shape of electrons is revealed Science. New type of duck-billed dinosaur found in China opens door to future discoveries There is a ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

This would pose no threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizable impact crater on our planet's only natural satellite. A 10 metre-wide asteroid broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia ...